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Posted by Wallyhorse on Thu Mar 11 00:18:30 2010, in response to Re: 3rd Avenue El, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 10 12:04:03 2010. Cost would have been an interesting situation as well. That likely would have dictated the rebuild.As some of the express stops on the middle track of the old 3rd Avenue El were actually on an upper level (based on the pictures I saw), I suspect if cost in the 1960's allowed, we would have seen a rebuild into a full two-level, four-track structure, going four tracks across at Chatam Square to allow local and express to meet there (and perhaps with the Park Row branch rebuilt first to Park Row and then eventually extended to the then-new World Trade Center around the time that officially opened in 1973, with the Park Row branch renamed the World Trade Center branch) and perhaps again at the other end at 125th or so as well. Another part of such a rebuild would likely have been with stations being lengthened (possibly to 600' to allow for 10 BMT/IND cars instead of five IRT-sized cars), we likely would have seen some stations abandoned, especially north of 34th Street while other would likely have been moved and combined (most notable of those likely would have been 84th and 89th Street on the old El combined into one stop at 86th Street), while if they did decide on the rebuild to make it for BMT/IND cars, then it likely would also have required platforms to be shaved back. |
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